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disentangle

verb
/ˌdɪsɪnˈtæŋɡəɫ/

Etymology

From dis- + entangle.

  1. inherited from entanglen
  2. prefixed as disentangle — “dis + entangle”

Definitions

  1. To free something from entanglement

    To free something from entanglement; to extricate or unknot.

    • I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.

  2. To unravel

    To unravel; to separate into discrete components or units.

    • This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.

  3. To become free or untangled.

The neighborhood

Derived

disentangler

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disentangle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01disentangle02untangled03untangle04knots05knot06tangled07intricate

A definitional loop anchored at disentangle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at disentangle

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA